Presented each year to recognize “Greatness in Oregonians,” the Governor’s Gold Awards ceremony is held in conjunction with a benefit auction in support of Special Olympics Oregon. Recipients are chosen by Oregon’s current governor, Ted Kuongoski, and former governors John Kitzhaber, Barbara Roberts, and Victor Atiyeh. Six awards in all were presented Saturday night, October 9th, at a ceremony at the Oregon convention Center in Portland. Dark Horse Comics, and its sister entity Dark Horse Entertainment, received one of the awards. Called “possibly the state’s best-kept secret,” Dark Horse Comics was cited as a revolutionary force in comics publishing without whose “unprecedented...
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